Baseball and Health Care: What Medicine Can Learn from Our Nation’s Pastime
Baseball In the mid-1970s, Bill James was a night watchman at a factory in Lawrence, Kansas. During quiet nights, he began exploring baseball statistics in a novel way. He wanted to boil baseball down to its essentials and determine what statistic(s) most strongly correlated with winning games. But just as with most organizations, those in professional baseball were not impressed with the unique findings of this outsider, and were...